When Did We Forget Our Dreams?

The infinite possibilites each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of the societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.

And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.

This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can, if someone asks you to not post you something on the web for the fact that a future employer might read it....

I give a DAMN!

PS - This is not my work. This is from XKCD.com. The exact link is : http://xkcd.com/137/

Thanks!

Shardul

And the world goes BOOM!

Well 2012 is out in cinemas this week, and will be watching it as soon as my world gets free from assignments so that i can see the very destruction of it. :)

The movie is based on the notion that the world is going to end in 2012 as the Mayan calendar is going to end......wait a minute... i have heard this before...

is it similar to the story that computers will be useless after 31 december 1999 as the 2000 would cause too many undesired changes...

we survived that!

Anyways, I still like the idea that it would just take one day to destroy all we, and the mankind ;) have created in so many years...

Would update this after watching the movie...

In the mean time would also think for one such way the world can end....

may be when i get committed to someone :)

Ciaoz

Shardul

The straight line

I have not been a writer at any stage of my life. But slowly I have started realizing that there is a need for a virtual space for me to share what I feel about what is going around in this world, and what is going around in the life around me. So after killing my old blog, I have decided to start this new one to wipe the slate clean and share what I truly feel about things.

Let us discuss about the concept of the straight line. Everybody wants their life to be a straight line, knowing from where it came, and where it will go. Everybody wants to add a bit of predictability in the lives they live. Though there are very few successful people who have been able to achieve the same, but there is a way to achieve a not so perfect line in life.

In the world we live in today, specially if you are from India, everyone has a backpack full of expectations on their shoulders. All of us are expected to do some things in some certain way because people expect that from us. Your every action is scrutinized and people try to predict you future based on your actions. One of my friends was telling me about his past relationships and what he has learnt from them. He told me that once there was this girl who abandoned him just because she thought that he did not had any future. This is one classic example of expectations driving the life around us. Not to be biased towards my friend, but the girl wanted to predict where they would land up by just seeing where they are now. This is a totally false approach.

In the quarter of a century I have seen this world, I have noticed only one thing. As in the case above, people would judge you by what you are right now and not what you can be. It is a result oriented world out there and no one is willing to pay even a tiny bit of respect to how a person does his work. For me, it is the most important thing one should count their decisions on. If AR Rehman's teacher would have followed the same, he would have discarded him the very first time he had met him. If I have my facts right, he was not doing that good in music when he first went to his teacher. Luckily for us, his teacher considered the talent which was hidden within and focussed on nurturing the same and bringing it out.

I know you might be thinking where is this blog heading towards, i started off with predictability and then something about talent v/s results. Let me bring it in a straight line to you...

It is okay that people want to have predictability in their lives. It gives them the feeling of being in control of their lives and also of the lives of the people they influence. The only problem with that is people give chance to people who have proven something in life. This gives a bit of predictability in their lives. That is fine too... Just do not ignore the people who still have not got a chance to show what they are made of. If possible, try to be brave and give at least one person an opportunity. He might disappoint you at first (there is a good 50% chance of that happening), but the power your faith instills in him can make him break the shackles which have been holding him and then fly like a bird as if the sky was made for him...

PS - I know this post is a bit crappy, but I started out to write out something totally different... and may be one day I will find the courage to write it down.